Garage Conversions

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UK garage conversion specialists, helping create space and add value to your home

Garage conversions are an effective way of adding both value and living space to your home. As UK garage conversion specialists, we can help make your building plans a reality.

Increase your living space with a garage conversion from CR Designs

Converting your garage is one of the easiest ways to gain extra room without building an extension on your home.

As a one-off project or part of a larger house remodelling, garages can be converted into a variety of living spaces, including extra bedrooms, utility rooms, studies/offices and home gyms.

Whatever you have in mind, our UK garage conversion specialists will prepare concept designs and drawings, technical specifications and structural calculations, whilst providing expertise at every stage of your building project.

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Why choose us?

Increase your living space and add value to your home

We provide concept designs, technical specifications and structural calculations

Operating nationwide, we'll guide you through the UK planning process

We will provide technical support to your builder

Converting your garage

Our team of garage conversion specialists will work with you to transform your ideas into concept designs and drawings.

Working remotely, your project team will suggest the most suitable options for your project based on your requirements, budget and the survey information from your garage.

As your designs take shape, we will offer online screensharing and video calls to discuss your drawings, with unlimited revisions until you are happy with them.

Concept, Design & Planning

Measured Survey

As part of the Concept Design & Planning stage, we may require a measured survey of your garage.

Measured surveys will provide key information we need to complete your planning drawings, including:

Whether it is an integral or detached garage
Condition of the existing structure
Pitch of the roof
Head room – your garage conversion will need around 2.2m to 2.4m of headroom once the floor has been raised to 15cm above the external ground level.

You can carry out the survey yourself or we can do it for you, for an additional charge.

Measured Survey

Planning application

It is unlikely that your project will require planning permission, as the majority of UK garage conversions fall under permitted development.

However, we will perform a full check of your project against local and national planning permission advice and rules to determine the type of planning application required.

We will prepare the planning drawings for your garage conversion within 2-3 weeks and submit the planning application on your behalf, acting as your agent with the council for the duration of the project.

Concept, Design & Planning

Building Control application

Your garage conversion project will need to meet building regulations.

Our fully qualified garage conversion specialists will have construction details and technical drawings ready for building regulation application within 2-3 weeks. Like the planning application, we will prepare and submit your application and will deal with the council on your behalf.

If structural designs (also known as structural calculations) are required, we can also prepare the drawings and submit them as part of the building control application.

Building Regulations

Our garage conversion packages

Our UK garage conversion specialists can provide planning, technical and structural drawings for your building project. Our design packages include:

Concept design and planning drawings
Building control and structural specifications
Structural design and calculations

Our design packages are suitable for all types of garage and loft conversion, house extension, renovation and self-build projects.

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House Extension

Loft Conversion

Glazed Gable End

House Extension

Home Porch Addition

Roofing Options

House Extension

Frequently asked questions

We provide a fixed price quote for every project, usually within a few hours of you contacting us.

Yes.

Depending on the type of project, we may be able to use estate agent floor plans, or architectural drawings from a previous planning application.

In most cases, however, it is necessary to do a measured survey of the property.

Depending on where you are located, we will come to your property to perform a measured survey, or we will appoint a third-party surveyor to do this. In some cases, you can provide your own measured survey, if you’d prefer.

If you have already received planning approval for your project, we can use your planning drawings to prepare the Building Regulation drawings and/or structural design.

Yes. It is important that designs are adequately insured, which is why CR Design Services insure all designs for £1m.

Please get in touch if you have any questions.

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Garage Conversions

UK garage conversion specialists, helping create space and add value to your home

Increase your living space with a garage conversion from CR Designs

Why choose us?

Increase your living space and add value to your home

We provide concept designs, technical specifications and structural calculations

Operating nationwide, we'll guide you through the UK planning process

We will provide technical support to your builder

Converting your garage

Measured Survey

Planning application

Building Control application

Our garage conversion packages

Inspiration Gallery

House Extension

House Extension

Loft Conversion

Glazed Gable End

House Extension

Home Porch Addition

Roofing Options

House Extension

Frequently asked questions

How much do your architectural drawings and design services cost?

Do you cover the whole of the UK?

How are you able to do the architectural drawings without a site visit?

Are you insured?

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